Results of deleted question no longer in sent folder

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Hi Survey123 Users,

I have a form created in Survey123 Connect that is publicly shared and a number of Public Users (no login) are submitting data regularly.

I recently deleted a question and replaced it with an alternative question. I can see the results of the old question and the new question online but the users can no longer see the results of the old question, even on submissions they sent before the question was deleted - all they can see in their Sent folders is the new question with no response.

Is there anyway to keep all of the results visible in the Sent folder?

I tired leaving the old question in the form and making the appearance 'hidden' but that didn't work obviously!

Any information would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Emma

Leena_Abdulqader · Answer

Of course @EmmaWhite5! Glad I could help. All the best

EmmaWhite5 · Answer

Hi @Neal_t_k,

Thanks for your response.

The read-only option could work also. @Leena_Abdulqader suggested this as well.

I thought this might be confusing to have the question still in the form but not editable. I decided to have the question hidden for the moment and depending on how many requests for information we get I will either delete the question or I will try putting it in as read only so previous results should be seen in the Sent folder.

Thank you both for your help with this, it's been much appreciated.

Emma

Neal_t_k · Answer

Since the field is still in the feature layer table, You could add a (read-only) question referencing that field name back into your survey. If answers were populated, they should show up then.  However, from your description, it sounds like for it to work, users would have to update to the newest revision, and would have to pull the old forms from inbox and not the sentbox.